To be more specific (If this even makes sense) I’m looking for an instance that leans more on the conservative side, but isn’t infested with politics.
I guess I’m looking for an instance that isn’t highly political. Even if it’s a conservative instance, I don’t really want to only see or have a politically dominated feed.
I’ve been on conservative instances way in the past, and that’s always been my issue with them. Obviously more left leaning instances have the same problem.
But I don’t want my lemmy experience to be majority about politics no matter what side it leans.
Any “conservative space” that exists usually fills up with conservatives saying the type of shit that would get them banned anywhere else.
I don’t think you’ll ever find what you’re looking for, but best of luck creating it and preventing it from devolving into what’s around currently.
I’m not sure you’ll get that from any instance that allows politics, to be perfectly honest, as politics will tend to swamp all other discussion because it generates more traffic and discussion. I’ve spent time on microskiff.com (a boating forum), which is intensely right-wing, and it got so toxic they had to ban political discussion altogether. They have an open feud with The Hull Truth (another boating forum) which leans more left and attracts more voices who challenge conservatives. /r/Hunting was kinda conservative and generally policed itself, but that’s because the mod team nuked anything that went off the rails.
Conservative-friendly spaces usually stay functional one of two ways: either they create a conservatives-only safe space or they refuse to let conservatives be overtly conservative. As someone who was a Reddit moderator for over a decade, you’re kinda driving at the major gripe conservatives have with the open internet. They tend not to get a warm welcome not because they’re conservative, but because when they flock together they tend to get disruptive and toxic very quickly. So then the warnings, removals, and bans come out, and the toxic crowd crows about being “censored”, and the toxicity/pushback ramps up in an endless loop. It’s the same song and dance everywhere they go, unfortunately. The conservative-sphere is just too infested with toxic conservatives for non-toxic conservatives find breathing room.
Additionally, Lemmy the platform has a steep learning curve which limits it to a more tech-savvy audience, and these kinds of forums naturally attract more left-leaning users, so I don’t think Lemmy is the place you’re going to find much conservative traffic in the first place.
when they flock together they tend to get disruptive and toxic very quickly
Hmm, I wonder why that is?
To everyone downvoting: Stop downvoting well meaning questions because you think anyone using that word must be about taking a side in American politics.
There will always be people resistant to change. They should have a space to share their doubts in a healthy way without falling into the toxic sludge of “Conservativism” (which is often radically revolutionary btw)
And to answer the question: Your best bet is a mainstream instance, and not subscribing to anything related to politics. You won’t escape it completely, and you can’t avoid having your ideas challenged. But you can avoid name-calling and hostility related to election campaigns.
Thank you for being a voice of reason among all the noise.
your fediverse experience is curated by your own subscriptions. unless youre doomscrollin’ /new you shouldnt see what you wouldnt want to see.
What are some topics that you feel are conservative that are not related to politics?
Kinda surprised nobody has said this: start your own instance. Seriously, thats the power of the fediverse.
Good luck on your quest to find one (In earnest, because the rest of this response is going to sound rather mean).
When it comes to technology, conservatives suffer from a learning disability.
They’ll keep cooking up half-baked networks behind cloudflare, AWS, Google reCaptcha and other brain rot.
And even if they did manage to erect a proper fediverse instance, it would likely get walled of from the rest of the liberal dominated network using blocklists for being too “toxic”.
May not quite answer your question, but when I think conservative I think less government interference.
Keyword my perspective, views of actual conservatism vary. So my thoughts would be instances where not having as much of your info be public, censorship, and mandates. Mandates is touchy, so what I am thinking is there should not be a vaccine mandate because everyone should be educated enough to understand how beneficial vaccines are and there is no need to force people since they’ll do it anyway.
Maybe an instance would be that Deep Space 9 episode where the federation tries to take over the entire Earth just because of a changeling threat?
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